Jmeter - Getting previous results in mail - testing

I'm using Jmeter - it runs automatically every 4 hours (through crontab). I'm sending the results file (csv) in the mail at the end of the test. I always see the file of the previous test, not the current one (I can see by the hour).
the structure is this: one 'Test Plan' (I checked 'Run Thread Groups consecutively' and 'Run tearDown Thread Groups after shutdown of main threads), two 'Thread Groups' - which at the end of each I write results to csv file using 'View Results Tree', and at the end - 'TearDown Thread Group' that uses SMTP sampler to send the files created.
any help would be appreciated.
EDIT:
This is the SMTP sampler settings:
and this is the writing to the file:

This might be due to Autoflush policy which flushes content of buffer only when buffer is reached.
As you use a tear down thread group results are nit guaranteed to be fully written as test is not really finished.
The fact that you think you are sending previous test file might be due to jmeter appending data to the same results file.
So :
1/ ensure you move or delete the file once sent
2/ Edit user.properties and add:
jmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush=true
This will make jmeter write to file any sample result immediately afte it is executed.

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How to make the SSIS package status to failure when propagate was set to false for a Sequence container

I have an SSIS package with for each loop > sequence container. The sequence container is trying to read file from For each loop and process its data. The requirement was to not fail the entire package when any exception happened in processing a file but to continue processing the next file until all the files were processed from the for each loop. For this, I have set the Propagate variable for the sequence container to False. I have also added email step on On Error event of Sequence container. The package is running as expected and able to process all files even when any exception happened with any file. But I would like the status of my SSIS package to be failed finally since one of the files got failed. How can I achieve that ?
Did you try this options?
(SSIS version in russian on the left side but it's sequence container)
View -> Properties window -> Then click on your sequence container and it will show you ther properties of sequence container.
If i were you first of all i would try property "FailPackageOnFailture" - it should cover your question if i get it right.
P.S. Also you can see the whole properties of your project when you click on a free place in your project
UPDATED (after comments and more clear understanding task):
The idea is - set this param Maximum ErrorCount for SQ as max as you want - in this case it wont stop the package because 1 of the files was failed in SQ and next file will process, but it should stop package after SQ will finish his work because you don't change MaximumErrorCount for package.
Important - a value of zero sets the error count threshold to infinity and package or task never get's Failure

Pentaho Data Integration: Error Handling

I'm building out an ETL process with Pentaho Data Integration (CE) and I'm trying to operationalize my Transformations and Jobs so that they'll be able to be monitored. Specifically, I want to be able to catch any errors and then send them to an error reporting service like Honeybadger or New Relic. I understand how to do row-level error reporting but I don't see a way to do job or transaction failure reporting.
Here is an example job.
The down path is where the transformation succeeds but has row errors. There we can just filter the results and log them.
The path to the right is the case where the transformation fails all-together (e.g. DB credentials are wrong). This is where I'm having trouble: I can't figure out how to get the error info to be sent.
How do I capture transformation failures to be logged?
You can not capture job-level errors details inside the job itself.
However there are other options for monitoring.
First option is using database logging for transformations or jobs (see the "Log" tab in the job/trans parameters dialog) - this way you always have up-to-date information about the execution status so you can, say, write a job that periodically scans the logging database and sends error reports wherever you need.
Meanwhile this option seems to be something pretty heavy-weight for development and support and not too flexible for further modifications. So in our company we ended up with monitoring on a job-execution level - i.e. when you run a job with kitchen.bat and it fails by any reason you get an "error" status of execution of the kitchen, so you can easily examine it and perform necessary actions with whenever tools you'd like - .bat commands, PowerShell or (in our case) Jenkins CI.
You could use the writeToLog("e", "Message") function in the Modified Java Script step.
Documentation:
// Writes a string to the defined Kettle Log.
//
// Usage:
// writeToLog(var);
// 1: String - The Message which should be written to
// the Kettle Debug Log
//
// writeToLog(var,var);
// 1: String - The Type of the Log
// d - Debug
// l - Detailed
// e - Error
// m - Minimal
// r - RowLevel
//
// 2: String - The Message which should be written to
// the Kettle Log

JMeter HTTP Request Post Body from File

I am trying to send an HTTP request via JMeter. I have created a thread group with a loop count of 25. I have a ramp up period of 120 and number of threads set to 30. Within the thread group, I have 20 HTTP Requests. I am a little confused as to how JMeter runs these requests. Do each of the 20 requests within a thread group run in a single thread, and each loop over a thread group runs concurrently on a different thread? Or do each of the 20 requests run in different threads as and when they are available.
My other question is, Over each loop, I want to vary the body of the post data that is being sent via the HTTP request. Is it possible to pass the post data body via a file instead of inserting the data into the JMeter Body Data Tab as show below:
However, instead of doing that, I want to define some kind of variable that picks a file based on iteration of the threadgroup that is running, for example, if it is looping over the thread group the second time, i want to call test2.txt, if the third time test3.txt etc and these text files will contain different post data. Could anyone tell me if this is possible with JMeter please and if so, how would I go about doing this.
Point 1 - JMeter concurrency
JMeter starts with 1 thread and spawns more threads as per ramp-up set. In your case (30 threads and 120 seconds ramp-up) another thread is being added each 4 seconds. Each thread executes 20 requests and if there is another loop - starts over, if there is no loop - the threads shuts down. To control load and concurrency JMeter provides 2 options:
Synchronizing Timer - pause all threads till specified threshold is reached and then release all of them at the same time
Constant Throughput Timer - to specify the load in requests per minute.
Point 2 - Send file instead of text
You can replace your request body with __fileToString function. If you want to parametrize it you can use nested function to provide current iteration - see below.
Point 3 - adding iteration as a parameter
JMeter provides 2 options on how you can increment a counter each loop
Counter config element - starts from specified value and gets incremented by specified value each time it's called.
__counter function - start from 1 and gets incremented by 1 each time it's being called. Can be "per-user" or "global"
See How to Use JMeter Functions post series for comprehensive information on above and more JMeter functions.

jmeter stop current iteration

I am facing the following problem:
I have multiple HTTP Requests in my testplan.
I want every request to be repeated 4 times if they fail.
I realized that with a BeanShell Assertion, and its already working fine.
My problem is, that I don't want requests to be executed if a previous Request failed 5 times,
BUT I also dont want the thread to end.
I just want the current thread iteration to end,
so that the next iteration of the thread can start again with the 1st request (if the thread is meant to be repeated).
How do I realize that within the BeanShell Assertion?
Here is just a short extract of my code where i want the solution to have
badResponseCounter is being increased for every failed try of the request, this seems to work so far. Afterwards, the variable gets resetted.
if (badResponseCounter = 5) {
badResponseCounter = 0;
// Stop current iteration
}
I already checked the API, methods like setStopTest() or setStopThread() are given, but nothing for quitting the current iteration. I also need the preference "continue" in the thread group, as otherwise the entire test will stop after 1 single request failed.
Any ideas of how to do this?
In my opinion the easiest way is using following combination:
If Controller to check ${JMeterThread.last_sample_ok} and badResponseCounter variables
Test Action Sampler as a child of If Controller configured to "Go to next loop iteration"
Try this.
ctx.setRestartNextLoop(true);
if the thread number is 2, i tried to skip. I get the below result as i expected (it does not call b-2). It does not kill the thread either.

Force a thread to use same input line when using CSV Data Set Config

I am trying to build a Jmeter test plan that can make http calls to a server. Each thread in the thread group will read 2 parameters from a CSV file and make the http call with the params, and continue to make the same call with same parameters for lets say 1000 times with a delay of 10s between each thread execution.
The http call looks like
/service/method?param1=${param1}&param2=${param2}
The CSV is like this:
1,2
3,4
5,6
7,8
I have the test plan set up that works for the most part except the single issue. I want each thread to use the same parameters (same line of input) whenever the thread executes. Currently the only way to do it is to set Recycle on EOF = true, but the threads randomly pick the values. Param1 and Param2 can be randomly generated values as long as they stick with the same thread throughout the execution.
Is there anyway I can achieve this?
Thanks!
I'm not really sure I understand your issue right (you can possibly describe it more explicitly or using an example) but the schema below should implement your test-plan description:
Test Plan
Thread Group
Number of Threads: N
. . .
While Controller
Condition: ${__javaScript("${param2"!="<EOF>",)} - read csv-file until the EOF
CSV Data Set Config
Filename: [path to your file with test-data]
Variable Names: param1,param2
Recycle on EOF? False
Stop thread on EOF? True
Sharing mode: Current thread group
Loop Controller
Loop Count = 1000 - number of loops for each thread, with the same params
HTTP Request - your http call
Test Action
Target = Current Thread
Action = Pause
Duration (ms) = 10000 - pause between calls
. . .
In case if you need that each of N threads reads and uses single and unique line from csv-file you have to set Sharing mode: Current thread group for CSV Data Set Config (number of csv-entries should be in this case the sane as threads number, or Recycle on EOF? False should be set otherwise).
In case if you need that each of N threads reads and uses all lines from csv-file you have to set Sharing mode: Current thread for CSV Data Set Config.
If that's not what you want please describe your issue a bit more clear.
I was able to find sort of a hack. Basically I just put a constant timer for each thread and used the thread number ${__threadNum} as the parameter to fit my constraint of having the same parameter to be used by the same thread.
I would still prefer a way to read the params from a csv file.